Merry Christmas!

With the exception of Ryan being sick, we had a wonderful first Christmas together!

There is nothing better than a full house of siblings and their kids, delicious food

and playing wii games like ''Just Dance 2'' SO much fun!

We got great gifts from my parents, each other and Santa. I personally love my

cute apron my mom gave me. Ryan was sure spoiled this year! He got a snuggie (That

apparently you can wear while fishing..) leather jacket, shirts and ''How to Train your Dragon" movie. We have been blessed this year and look forward to what 2011 brings!

me: Is it weird I totally wanna get up and dance when I hear this song

Ryan: Please don't tell me you like this commercial

me: oh yes, yes I do.

Ryan: You're weird.

love ya too babe

game nights

What's better than game night with friends?

Watching the husbands/date bust out their moves while playing wii Just Dance 2.
Epic.

First date for these two, we had so much fun with them

Kylie and Steve were pro's

Bryce and Megan are born performers

The pions hat to be worn that the Great Dalmutti made Steve

and I wear..haha

Utah Girls

oh my heck! (my california buddy always made fun of me in H.S for saying that)

This video is just too funny, gotta love youtube when bored and browsing around. Enjoy!

I have been to one of the Divine Comedy shows years ago in my good 'ol days living in ''The Bubble'' and they are so funny. go to www.divinecomedy.net to watch more videos

so long..

This was the last credit card of mine to cut up, now that I'm a married woman Ryan made me cut up all of my credit cards. *tear

Goodbye Nordstroms, Kohle's, The Loft, Victoria's Secret ugh. No more frivolous shopping sprees, so long to rewards points and getting excited when receiving mail for 20% and up off items when using my cards.

Hello to being a poor married couple on a tight budget! ... and loving it all! Even though 'date nights' some evenings have turned into staying in watching a movie together or just going for a nice walk/drive rather than going out to dinner and a movie. I am so grateful for a husband who is frugal and is fun to just be with and hang out and not have to go out looking for something to entertain us. One day I will have those shopping sprees again! ;)

Win!

Finding fabulous sales for Ryan's Christmas presents and maybe even found a few things I put on my list to give to Mrs. Clause

Going to the gym finally

hair is colored, trimmed and I'm diggin it

having a wonderful husband go to 3-4 different stores for me to find a certain sauce for tacos

Sleeping in on my day off

Fail...

Waking up to find a 'little friend' on my face. ugh!

Getting to the gym (which is 20 min away) to find that my ipod is dead..

Dealing with stupid credit card insurances and getting screwed over

Ryan going to all of the different grocery stores and still no luck finding the sauce i wanted

Coming home from working out and ate a cinnamon roll woops!

movies to watch this month

Top Christmas movies in no particular order that I love!

It's a wonderful life

How the grinch stole Christmas *both versions

Little Women

Christmas Story

Elf

The Polar Express

The Muppet Christmas Carol

The Santa Clause

Nightmare before Christmas *doubles as awesome Halloween movie too!

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Home Alone 1&2

Scrooged

Miracle on 34th Street

The Family Stone

A Charlie brown Christmas

Four Christmases

The Nutcracker

The Original Christmas Classics we all grew up loving

Date night

I had planned a date night for Ryan and I a few weeks ago and got tickets to see the

Salt Lake Choir and brass band perform. Even though we are both under the weather

we still wanted to go. We arrived early to Temple Square so we went to the Church Museum

across the street to see the rug his grandparents had made and given the church.

The rug is beautiful, I'm speechless every time I see it. I can't imagine all of the time and

work they put in to making this one of a kind rug. His Armenian heritage

is quite the story that I look forward to sharing with our children one day.

As much as I wanted to walk around and see the lights Ryan only let us stay out long

enough to have a picture taken since we are both sick. Looks like another date night

down town will have to be scheduled soon!

GNO

My Friend Sara and I had a fun girls night out, dinner at The Old Spaghetti Factory

and fashion show at Trolley Square. Some of the dresses were

adorable and I would totally wear.

Don't mind my 'emo' style hair, I was trying to cover my poor infected eye..

I have been awful taking pictures lately so I don't have a single one of Ryan's and my first Thanksgiving together. It was a great day and relaxing. We had dinner with my parents than headed over to Ryan's grandmas home to visit.

This year I am grateful

*an amazing husband who loves me even when I steal the covers at night and take over the bed to find 'the cold spot'

*for wonderful parents who love and support us. and for letting us live with them for free temporarily.

*my amazing sisters and their families I adore my nephews and nieces.

* Ryan's family who from the beginning let me into their home and lives with open arms.

* The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, I am so blessed to have been born and raised in the church having wonderful leaders teach me, an amazing Prophet who I dearly love and look up to.

* For a job and the clients that come in with great stories to share, especially those that are good tippers ;)

* my amazing friends who love me including my faults and imperfections, knowing I can count on them for anything and everything.

* having good health, it breaks my heart and humbles me to be thankful when I read blogs or hear of those going through horrible illnesses.

* Those who are so open to share their experiences on their blogs so that we may all learn and be grateful for what we have in our lives and remember what is truly most important.

* finally joining the marriage club! I love being married, I highly recommend it

In my next life....

I got this e-mail and thought it was hilarious and had to share

(click on it to enlarge it)

Oh it is so good to be back home with family and friends! I am fortunate enough to have found a job so quickly and only 15-20 minutes away from my parents where we are staying till we find a place. Now we are just hoping Ryan can find a good job quickly and settle into our own home before school starts the beginning of next year.

Yay for my friends birthday! Ryan had to make a trip out to Colorado for

work and wasn't able to make it but I managed to still have fun ;)

The birthday princess herself! tiara and all

I have known these girls for 15-20 years! We ate and chatted it up

at Cafe Rio till 11 pm

Trick-or-Treat!

Happy Halloween!

<3,

The O. fam

(Carroll kids)These teenagers are too cool to dress up and weren't

thrilled to have their pictures taken

ninja, tiger, and vampiress

(Prows kids) fat inmate, witch, pirate Jack

Assassin from a video game & Dorothy

Angel & Devil

Missing one of the fabulous sisters!

Love ya B

So long Colorado!

Tonight is our last night in Colorado! We are thrilled to be coming home and be closer to family and friends.
As I am waiting for a batch of clothes to be washed I figured I would take a break from packing and do nothing else but blog and put off the other needed packing..

Colorado has been a great experience and it was pretty fun to live here! We weren't able to do everything we were hoping to do but plans changed and we are coming home early. There's always next summer if we come back!

We will miss

*Having it just be the two of us, the lazy days and fun times of exploring our temporary home

*Our neighborhood woodland pets i.e bunnies, chipmunks, deer, squirrels (they are seriously every where!)

*The sweet families and kids I nannied for, I had so much fun with them!

*Ah the weekly shopping at king soopers...

*Sleeping in... I am so not a morning person so once I am home and working full time again it's not going to be a pretty picture for the first while

*Panera Bread

We wont miss as much..

*Sleeping on the blow up matress... well hello queen sized bed again!

*Confusing freeways and streets ex: Wood way, Wood rd, C. Wood way, ect you get the picture

*Stressful work days for Ryan with lame insurance companies

*Crazy lady landlord and rules

*Having no family and friends close by

*Having to worry about Ryan falling off a roof...oh wait that happened on his last day..today! :(

*Having an office room as a bedroom

Well there goes the buzzer on the washer, better get back to packing oh joy!

tagged

What is his name?
Ryan George Ouzounian
How long have you been together? since January 2003

How long did you date?
ha! always love this question (sense the sarcasm?) dated for 2 1/2 years in H.S Ryan was gone for 2 years serving a mission in the mean time I dated around finding no one that gave me the butterflies like he did. Dated for almost 3 years again when he returned and than FINALLY got married.

How old is he?
25
Who eats more?
Him all the way
Who said I love you first?
Oh High School love and me and my big mouth ;)

Who's Taller?
Ryan. He thinks I'm shallow when he asks if I would have dated him if he were shorter than me and I say no.

Who can sing better?
hmm debatable depending on the song although he does a good job singing ''popular'' from Wicked ;)

Who is smarter?
also debatable, depends on the subject...ok the only subjects I would win in would be hair, fashion, celebrity gossip (I blame boredom days living here and the magazines at the salons)

Who does the laundry?
Me, agreement to marriage was I would do all laundry if he would do dishes
Who pays the bills?
both of us

Who sleeps on the right side?
I do.
Who mows the lawn?
the land lady's ex husband...
Who cooks dinner?
Me, unless we want top roman or mac & cheese each night

Who drives?
he does for the most part unless I have to use my car for the sake of AC or heating

Who is more stubborn?
hands down Ryan.

Who kissed who first?
We both leaned in but I may have leaned in more.
Who asked who out first?
After kissing and 'hanging out' for a while I told him it was time to commit or no more lip smackin from me

Who proposed?
He did, and I loved it.
Who has more friends?
Me, I'm the social butterfly
Who is more sensitive?
does that really need to be answered...
me

Who has more siblings?
him by 1
Who wears the pants?
happy wife = happy life

right? jk

People Tagged: any of my friends!

for B

To humor my sister Brittani along with our friends and other family members of our adventures living in our 'Colorado home'

It has definitely been an experience to say the least. Jed & Chelsea...I don't know how you did it all summer long haha.

Her Rules:

*Only park on the right side of drive way (Under the tree that sheds like crazy leaving its sap on our cars)

*not allowed in the family room or to use bathroom on middle floor .. it's for her and guests only

*do not stack pans on top of one another "metal on metal...it'll scratch" so napkin or paper towel is to be placed between each one

*We are not allowed to use the vacuum therefor she will vacuum our room (we put the kabosh on that one!)

*Shut each door very very gently to not cause damage of any kind

*Pay half of any broken appliances while living there (This is not a marriage so that was a big no on our part)

She had 2 pages of things we had to abide by but these were a few.

#1

Rule was for our privacy, before owner of home comes down stairs (to get to her office or do laundry) was to first knock and wait for either of us to let her know she is good to come down. Well...one day I was in the shower and Ryan was getting ready. The bathroom mind you is just below the stairs, so you know when it is on if you open the door.

She knocked on the door. No answer. ''Hello? helloooooo? hellloooooooooooo? still no answer and I'm thinking ok I am in the shower lady obviously we are both getting ready and too busy to answer. Than the cell phones start going off after the cowbell has been run a couple of times.

What was her hurry?

She needed us to move our cars some time soon.

#2

We went to Utah for a family funeral. I closed our bedroom door, closed the bathroom door cause it's by the washer/dryer and didn't have time to clean it before we left.

Ryan gets a phone call saying our toilet is dirty and needs to be cleaned..... ok mommy!

We come home and she has left out of town. We find a note from her reminding us to clean bathroom and toilet and to keep lights turned off when leaving each room. I felt like I was 10 years old.

I could go on but than this would be a really long post! I highly recommend to live by yourselves when newly married if possible. As embarrassing or annoying as it has been living here it has made for some good laughs and great stories.

There's no place like home

A pair of magical red glitter shoes would have come in real handy at times to just click my heels and be home for family gatherings, friends weddings, game nights and Sunday dinners at my parents home.

Well no need for more wishing, we are moving back home!! Yes that is correct. Our original plan was to come home just before Christmas but work has slowed down for both Ryan and I that we feel it would be best to just come home since I have a salon job waiting for me and I could find a 2nd job as well. Ryan can find work as well as get everything ready to return to school. We are so excited to come home the end of the month and be close to our families and friends again.

Living in Colorado has been such a great experience

-I love being married to Ryan

- You can't sweat the small stuff because other wise what will you do when the big things arise

-Some times you just have to laugh and joke around about the small irritating things each other does like when one of us doesn't close doors and cupboards all the way, someone living out of his suitcase, playing tug 'o' war with the blankets at night, snoring, having more hair supplies than drawer space to put it in.

- We made a deal before we got married that if I would do the laundry he would do the dishes. muahaha I think I got the better deal of the bargain.

- There is nothing better than coming home to your best friend each day.

-I don't think I could ever get bored of Ryan, he is hilarious and we have the greatest conversations whether it be about our day, the gospel, future goals, ect

-Couple prayer and reading scriptures together each night.

I am grateful for the 2 1/2 months we will have spent here I have learned a lot about being married, about myself, that if you are going to live in someone's basement be prepared for their craziness and have communication with that person.

spider cheesecake

I found this on delish.com and thought it would be fun to make this for a Halloween party with friends/family

hello October!

I LOVE fall time, I love everything about it. The colors, smells, feel. October is my favorite month and each year I enjoy it more and more.

The cool crisp air

The smell of cinnamon and pumpkin spice

General Conference

My Birthday!

Halloween I will never grow tired of dressing up and getting giddy when I see pumpkins, witches, skeletons and trick or treat candy.

Baking cookies,home made bread and cinnamon rolls. .. ok well this will be my first time doing it rather than stuffing my face with my moms home made treats.

mmm don't these cupcakes look divine, I need to find a new yummy bakery since we aren't fortunate enough to have Sweet Tooth Fairy here in Colorado. (Utah friends & family, you have to go there if you haven't yet.)

I love fashion during the fall time; wearing jackets, scarves, boots, hats and my favorite... sweat pants that I can wear and curl up on the couch with some delicious hot chocolate.

yes the bearded man is my husband..

Welcome to the mall in Boulder Colorado. It's not as big as the Denver one but yay for free parking on a Saturday night! There are all sorts of street shows to watch while walking down the strip.

Date night in Golden which is just 10 minutes from us. It's a cute area that has a lot of smaller shops and yummy restaurants to try out.

Is that Wolverine in the picture?? no...that would be my husband. He looks pretty handsome! but I can't wait till he shaves it off and see that clean shaven face again ;)

wedding pictures!

Six weeks ago I married this amazing man

That day went by too quickly, we had so much fun and tried soaking up every bit of it.

We are so grateful for our families and friends for their love and being part of our

big day. Neither of us wanted the day to end, it was beautiful and we had a blast

dancing, using the photobooth, we didn't sit down once!

I am so blessed to have Ryan in my life he is an amazing husband!